Film-holder.



Patented Mayll, 1918 3 SHEES-SHEE 1.

INYENTOH BYQL l TTUHNEY N. M. HANSEN.

FILM HOLDER.

APPLlcAhon FILED Ausma. 1915.

N. M. HANSEN.

FILM HOLDER.

APPLICAUM FILED AuG.25. Isls.

1 ,266,254:. Patnted May 14, 1918.

MM@ i lll EITUR A TTORIIEY N. M. HANSEN.

FILM HOLDER. APPu'cAnou FILED Auazs. |915.

1 ,266,254. Patented May14, 1918.

3 SHEETS-SHEE 3.

@Heiney `'UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'NIELS M. HANSEN, 0F TOLEDO, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO PAUL F. REICHERT, OF TOLEDO,

' OHIO.

. FILM-HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern.'

lle it known that LNiELs M. HANSEN, a citizen of the United States of' America, re-

`siding at Toledo, Lucas county, Ohio, have invented new and useful Film-Holders, of whic-h the following is a specification.

This invention relates to handling of cylindrical windings of material.

This intention has utility when incorporated in devices for holding spools or reel of ribbon, as motion ieture films.

Referring to the d)rawings:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front view of an embodiment of' the invention in a motion picture machine as holding the film in a center delivery reel in the supply magazine;

Fig. 2 is a. view of the holder, apart from the reel, portions being brokenl away;

Fig. 3 is a view of the holder adjusted to interlock with` the reel, portions being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a view, on a smaller scale, of the opposite side or back of the holder at the adjustment shown in Fig. 3;

Fig. `5 is an enlarged detail view of the lock for maintainingr the device in adjusted position;

Fig. 6 is a section on the line VL-VL Fig. 2, showing the reel in position on the holder;

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of the flexible embracing members and their mounting. Fig. 8 is a view from the right of Fig. G with the disk 7 removed together with t-heembracing section and operating means therefor, the hub 5 being shown in expanded position;

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Fig. 8, on an enlarged scale butwith the hub in collapsed position;

Fig. l() is a fragmentary view of the opposite side of disk G from the showing in Fig. 9: and

Fig. 11 is'a fragmentary perspective view ot' the guide means in the-delivery of strip material from the reel.

The driving projecting device 1 for motion picture lilm or ribbon 2, may have mounted thereon the magazine 3 concentrically disposed within which is the spindle or axle 4.

Specification of Letters Patent.

.l5 of the actuator disk 14. Each member 10. `Accor ator 14 is rotated to cause the pins 21 to `from its closed-in position of Patented May 14, 1918.

Serial No. 47,255.

The reel comprising the hub and parallel side members or disks 6, 7, is mounted on the spindle 4 (Fig. 6).

The disk 7 has sets of diverging guide ways 8 extending centerward, while nearer the center stops or openings 9 are provided.

Mounted on the axle 4, and fixed therewith is the base member or disk 10 having on its side toward the disk 7, the stop or pro- ]ection 1l for entering a recess 9 and thus fixing the reel in determined angular relation as to the base member 10 of the holder device.

The base 10 has the centerward extending, curved, converging guide ways 12, While between each air of t iese Ways 12, the base 10 has a radial y extending uide Way 13. The ways 12 are brought by t 1e stops 9, 11, into registry with the Ways 8 of the disk 7.

Back of the base 10 is the actuator or coaxial disk member 14 rotatably mounted on the axle 4 parallel to the disk 10. This disk 14 has a curved or spiral guide Way 15 for each setof guide ways on the base disk .10. Radially extending from the member 14 is the arm 16 having a threaded opening 17 therein with a free sprin extension 18 folding back thereover to be orced by the thumb screw 19 to grip the disk 10 and thereby lock the relatively shiftable disks 10, 14, against rotation as to each other. The screw 19 is guided by the bracket 2() mounted in the arm 16.

Operative connections between the disks 10, 14, are effected by the pins 21 in the Ways pin 21 has two links 22 extending therefrom to act as a toggle in spreading` the levers 23 connected by the p'ln 24. o direct the action of thisfloating linkage 22, 23, the pins 21, 24, are guided by the uide Ways`13 of the base Jdingly as the disk or actutravel in the Ways 15 inwardly, the toggle k A Eig. 2, 1s opened out as shown in Fi .13, simultaneously spreading apart theV ree ends of the levers 23 carrying the pins 25 operating in' the ways 12 of the base 10, as well as the ways 8 of the reel disk 7, when adjacent thereto, serving thereby to interlock the reel with the holder or gripping device.

Fast to each pin 25 and extending inside the pin 25 of 'the same pair of levers 23 is a flexible embracing means or member 26. In this grouping, these adjustable are members 26 connect fourth pins 25 with each other. In the adjustment of the gripping device, these members 26, by the one-motion or single movement of the arm 16, vary the cylindrical adjustment in approximating a true circle for positively gripping andr concentrically sustaining a film in a film holding reel. The reel section comprising the hub 5 a'nd the .disks 6, 7, is a unit independent of the straps 26 and their operating means 'through the relatively rotatable disks 10, 14,

and the coperative anchoring slots 8 against relative rotation in the disk 7. This reel section comprising the disks 6 and 7 and the hub 5 may be the structure upon which the iilm, say in a moving picture apparatus, is wound for exhibiting and as so used for receiving the film there is not present the strap or adjustable arc members 26 with their operating means, the peripheral Way being clear. These arc members and their operating means may be applied subsequently to the chargin of the reel section comprising the hub 5, disks 6, 7 Il.`he disk 6 has mounted thereon the hub comprising the movable sections 27, 28 and 29. The section 29 is mounted on the fixed pivot 30 and.

has actuating pin 31 movable in the slot 32 of the disk 6. i

The section 27 has the pin 33 slidable in the slot 34 of the disk 6. This section is engaged by the operating pin 35 slidable in the slot 36. The section 28 has the pin 37 slidable in the slot 38 in the disk 6 as its guide pin and is actuated by the pin 39 movable in the slot 40 of the disk 6. These actuating pins 39 and 35 are fast with the operating arm 41 rockable on the axle sleeve 42, while the actuating pin 31 operates in the slot 43 in the actuating arm 41. The free end of this arm 41 has reciprocable thereon the T-shaped member 44 provided with the guide slots 45, 46, coacting with the pins 47 48, carried by the arm 41. This slidable member 44 is normally held retracted inward by the spring 49 with its 'cross ledges 50, 51, coacting with the cross bar 52 of the trigger 53 pivoted upon the pin 47, whereby rocking of this trigger 52 against one of the ledges 50 or 51 will lift this member 44 against the action of the sprin 49 to free the holding notch 54 from the pin 55 in one direction and the opposite notch 56 from the pin 57 in operating the arm 41 for swinging in the other direction.

lVith this actuator 41 locked with the pin 55, the hub is in expanded position and the spring 58 (Figs. 8 and 9) rocks the dog 59 into engagement with one of the uadrant disposed recesses 60 on the hub 61 ast with the disk 7 so that the slots 8 are in proper angular position for a registry with the embracing mechanism. As this actuator 41 is locked to have the recess 56 engage the pin 57 the hub is collapsed by the inward movement ot, the three sections and the resulting simultaneous withdrawal of the do 59 is positively actuated by the pin 35. his releases the disk 7 for freedom of rotation with the material and the outward embracing means, while leaving the disk 6 locked material from the two reel sections.

When the actuator 41 was in position as held by the pin 57, the hook 62 rigid therewith engaged the pin 63 on the arm 64 swingable 1n the are slot 65 of the disk 6. Upon -the throwing of the actuator41 into position as held by the pin 55, this hook 61 was 'rocked to release the pin 62, thereby allowing the spring 66 coacting about the arc 67 to pull the arm 64 for outward travel in the slot 65 carrying with it the roller 68 enacting with the inner portion of the eripherally held materiaal. Before actuation of rthis member 41, the are members 26, with their actuators, have been brought into afssembled relation for close gripping enga ment peripherally of the roll of materia 2, and the outward throwin of this roller 68 holds this strip material rom full collapse and serves as a guide roll for the strip 2 in passin thereunder, thence over the angular rg1d guide 69 for delive by the roller 70. The threading of'this ree inner end of the 'strip material is permitted by swinging outward the gate 71 on its hin 72, said outward swing carrying with 1t the rigid guide 69 as well as the roller 70. lV hen brought back into closed position, this door 71 is held by the latch 72.

In operation, the reel which is just loaded by receiving the film exhibited is removed from its magazine, usuali the one below the projecting apparatus, its liub is slipped over the axle 4 of 'the embracing holder or gri ping device, the stops 9, 11, being broug t into registry and en aging. The reel or the base 10 ma be hed while the arm 16 is rotated cloc wise, thus causing the pins 21 to spread the links 22 and levers 23, and as the pins 21, 24, are guided by the ways 13, the actuating ways 15 cause the pins 25 to move in the ways 12 and thence into the registering ways 8, increasing the overlap of the ends of the members 26, thereby reducing the e'ective diameter of the gripping means until the film is firmly engaged. The set screw 19 may then be rotated to effect friction locking between the actuator 14 and "filml load is'sust'ained asY a hard thj Abase `10,and the' loaded reel is ready for 'ng into `thesupply maaziiie 3' forcenii'tra deiveryftherefrom of m 2. This'fo eration:is` simply effectively and mstrai ,ILV Reformed,- vltllut any Pecessity frjewinding of stock or film, and the compact mass away yfrom ,the central delivery way, tlnis insrin if ,ieedom for outward travel at all times vvit'lihelabilityiof injuring the iai is Y'elia-inea,.man is'- ssii-ed to' Se. Curaby-1eaal eeniisa,

l, iA ,reel foristrip material, anda onemotioii perableperipheral embracing means,

einbdi'i'igfifnterconiiected siiiinltaneclisly acy u'ab eplenen'tsffor 'eiiternally gripping stripmateriajl iin hereel. 4

2. An adjustable 'cylindrical centerward gripping device embodying a base, and operating means embodying interconnected simultaneously actuable elements Vmovable relatively to the base for effecting gripping peripheral adjustment of the device.

3. An adjustable cylindrical gripping device embodying peripherally disposed flexible are gri ping members, and a base providin gui ing means therefor.

4. in adjustable cylindrical gripping device embodying 'peripherally disposed flexible arc embracin means, a base providing guiding means iibr the embracing means, and actuator-:means for moving the embracing means relatively totheA base.

-5. An adjustable gripping device embod in interconnected simultaneously operab ein racing means, an embracing means iding base, and a positive actuator `shi table relatively to the base for varying the adjustnient of the embracin means.

j 6. An adjustable gripping device embodying embraclng means, and coaxial relatively angularly shiftable guide members having intel'en ing means coacting for varying the adjustment of the embracing means.

An adjustable cetrilietal gripping device embodyinga bracing" means, a ase having guide ways extending away from the c enterthereof, and a relatively angularly shitableactiiator fuorlsimultaneously moving the series of means ns directedbyythe Ways. v v 8. An adjustable gapping device embodvng-reinbracin "means, a 'ase having verging guide Ways, :and a-relatively shiftable actuator having guide means and connections for effecting simultaneous adjustment or' the embracing means in a plurality of the base guide ways. p

. 9. Peripherally extending flexible are embracing mea s, relatively shiftable guidingl members, an intermediate linka e operable by the shifting of the members go vary the adjustment of the means.

rial on the reel, and a peripheral series of eni-A 10. A reel for strip material and in addition to the reel a material centripetal embracing device provided with means for mounting concentrically of the reel .independently of the reel.

11. A reel for strip material and in addition to the reel a material embracing device embodying liexible embracing means and a base for supporting means coaxially withthe reel.

12. A reel -for strip material and in addition to the reel a gripping device embodying adjustable embraci-nlg means for mate- )ase for the means adjustable to determined angular relation as to the reel.

13. A reel having guide means and in addition-to the reel a gripping-device embodying adjustable embracing means for reel held material, and a support for said embracing means, said device in the adjustment of the embracing means interlocking i with the guide means of the reel.

14. A reel having guide means and in addition to the reel a stop, and a reel held material gripping device embodying ad` justable embracing means and a sto registrabl'e angularly with the sto of t e reel, whereby in the adjustment of he embracing means of the device the uide means of the reel effect interlocking o? the reel with the device.

15. A. wel in addition thereto, an addevice for reel held mameans coacting upon adjustment reel to 'lock the reel justable embracing terial, and of the device as to the to the device.

16. A center delivery film reel, and a film centripetal embracing device peripherall extending for exteriorly enacting in simu taneous ositive adjustment in centering the iilm in t e reel. A

17. A one-motion external gripping device embodying simultaneously operable inter. pilmnected elements for centering reel-held 18. A one-motion gripping device embodyingsimultaneously operable interconnected elements for centerin reel-held films, and

Ingalls for' rigidly loc ing the device in p'ol si ion.

19. A plural strip iiexible band gri pin device for centering reel-held films,p an ieei centering and interlocking means thereor.

20. A reel comprisinga first centerward controlling section, and a second Heripheral controlling section circumerentia y adjustable as a lunit for embracing material in the reci on the centerward controlling Seotii. 21. A reel' comprising a first centerward controlling section, and a second peripheral controlling section.' one of said. sectionsv 'including operating means for cectm'g simul-.

taneous adjustment of said section throughout its extent.

22. A reel comprising a first eenterward controlling section, a second peripheral controlling section, and positive adjusting means for thesections, one of said adjust- ,ing means embodying elements for simultaneously shifting such section throughout its extent. r

23. A reel comprising a first centerward controlling section, and a second peripheral controllin section, one of said sections embodying apjusting means smultaneousl eoacting throughout the circumferentia extent of such section.

24. A reel comprising a first centerward controlling section, and a second peripheral controllingl section, one of said sections embodying a justing means simultaneously coacting throughout the circumferential extent of such section to be withdrawn from engaging a charge of material on the reel.

Copies' o! this patent may be obtained for Lacasse 2,5. A holdin device for a coil of strip material emb ying peripheral en ging means for the materia a pair of a jacent supporting disks for the means, said disks provided with intersecting slots, and control elements for the means mounted in the slots whereby relative an ar shifting of the disks may eil'ect adJustment of the means.

26. A reel for a coil of strip material, said reel includin a disk provided with slots, and a holding device for the strip material coil embodying peripheral engag-I ing means for the coil, contro elements for the means, and a pair of independently movable slotted engaging disks said eontrol elements coasting with the slots of the disks to e'eet adjustment of the means and look the device in position as to the reel.

In witness whereof I affix my signature. l

NIELS M. HANSEN.

tive cents eheh, b y addi-elsing the "Oommlnioner e! Intenti- Weshington, D. 0."

Itis hereby certified that in Letters Potent No. 1,266,254, granted Mey 14, 1918, upon the application of Niels M. Hansen, of Toledo, Ohio, for an improvement in Film-Holders, errors appear in the printed specication requiring correction as follows: Page 3, line 27, claim 3, for theword "are" read arc; same page, line 50, claim 7, trike out the word angularly; same page, line 55, claim 8, afterthe word "relatvely insert the word angularly; same page, lines 88-89, claim 14, strike out the words in addition to the reel; same page and claim, line 89, after the word and insert the words in addition to the reel; page 4, line 15, claim 23, after the word "section insert the words engage a charge; and that the said Lettera Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the casein the Patent Oce.

Signe and sealed this 11th day of June, A. D., 1918.

[slim] F. W. H. CLAY,

Acting Commissioner of Patente. Cl. 88-18 7. 

